Hi all! I just wanted to make sure all of you had heard of the official re-launch the Social Media Club RDU tomorrow (in case you've been hiding under a rock!). No longer am I manning the club by my lonesome, the folks at iContact...

23 September, 2008

I need your help. My new book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party, is going to production in the next week. I've been presented with two designs for the cover. Neither one is 100% yet, as there's some wording that needs to be tweaked,...

22 September, 2008

Social media geeks, myself included, have been looking for/waiting for the "Twitter Killer" to emerge over the last few months. While Twitter's famous crashes seem to have lessened, the stream of consciousness style doesn't seem to facilitate effective conversations as well as we might...

18 September, 2008

To jump start the series 26 Social Media Marketing Examples In Detail, I will start with a review of the popular channel, Animal Planet. Here's some of my findings (along with a slideshow to easily see these efforts without visiting each link!):...

17 September, 2008

Everyone who has a computer has access to a command line. It's a shame that more folks aren't taking advantage of this very useful and cool tool. Things like "ipconfig," "ps -aux," etc are old hat to those living in the command line. For some...

17 September, 2008

My new book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party, written with Lisa Braziel, is ready to go into production in the coming weeks and should be available for purchase by mid-October. The cover designs are being finalized, the preface is being written (by Robert...

15 September, 2008

I read a very funny post the other day listing the 10 Commandments of Facebook. After getting to Commandment 10 ("Thou Shalt Not Act Like You're On MySpace") I realized that if there were lists like this for Social Media Marketers, nobody would feel...

15 September, 2008

Here are the top social media picks for the week.  Enjoy :) Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don't Use Social Media Marshall Kirkpatrick from Read Write Web answers the question on how to use social media to reach...

12 September, 2008

On Monday in Wilmington, North Carolina (a mere 120 miles from Ignite) the FCC turned off the analog airwaves, turning Wilmington into America's first all-digital city. The change, coming five months before the nation-wide switch, is to figure out what will and won't run...

10 September, 2008

Last week, I stumbled across Peter Kim's blog post titled, "A List of Social Media Marketing Examples". Let me just add that this title should be revised to, "A MASSIVE list of Social Media Marketing Examples", because Peter has collected over 200 companies who are...

09 September, 2008